Conceptual - NOMINEE: Maria Oliveira

Starting with the closest references, the work explores certain gestures, postures and movements with reference to a time and place, characteristics such as proximity to land, strength, endurance and determination. In a broader sense, ‘Saving fire for darker days’ also examines the concept of mother as an element, mother-earth, and mother-nature. This project was develop between 2016 and 2017 during the first edition of training Lab Ci.CLO. For 12 months, 9 photographers had the opportunity to create a new body of work culminating in an itinerant collective exhibition ‘Unity & Division’ that will show in national and international territory until 2018.